The Startup Roadmap Chapter 1: Starting Your Journey

Congratulations on taking the first step towards starting your business!

Even though many steps lie ahead, our Startup Roadmap can guide you along the journey. It provides detailed directions, tips on avoiding detours and helpful resources to reach your destination.

To help you during this exciting trip, work with a SCORE mentor. Your mentor is the best tour guide— someone who has experienced their own journey to entrepreneurship. Seventy percent of mentored businesses survive more than five years — double the rate for non-mentored small businesses over that same time period.

The Startup Roadmap, sponsored by FedEx, includes these chapters, but you do not have to stop at every exit:

The FedEx Small Business Grant Contest offers significant opportunity for small businesses across the United States to share their inspirational stories and achieve national recognition while simultaneously rallying support from local communities to grow their businesses.

Funded, in part, through a Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration. All opinions, and/or recommendations expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the SBA.